Jeremiah 2:5-7

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

What wrong did your ancestors find in me
    that they went far from me,
and went after worthless things, and became worthless themselves?
⁶ They did not say, “Where is the Lord
    who brought us up from the land of Egypt,
who led us in the wilderness,
    in a land of deserts and pits,
in a land of drought and deep darkness,
    in a land that no one passes through,
    where no one lives?”
⁷ I brought you into a plentiful land
    to eat its fruits and its good things.
But when you entered you defiled my land,
    and made my heritage an abomination.